Birthday Cake is a big deal in our house and for several years now, we have been baking each other’s cake. For a long time, I didn’t bake white chocolate cake. This year I had to try it once again and I’m super glad to find a recipe which I am going to bake on repeat. My husband is a big fan of white chocolate and so on special occasions like his birthday I try to incorporate white chocolate in dessert or cake.
Baking with White Chocolate
As you might know that white chocolate is made from cocoa butter, solid milk and sugar. Because of the high content of butter in white chocolate the texture of the cake doesn’t turn out buttery and soft. While preparing this cake you have to be careful about how you melt the white chocolate. I’ve melted the chocolate using milk on a stove top. You can do the same even in microwave.
Ingredients for the White Chocolate Cake
The ingredients for the white chocolate cake is pretty simple.
Good Quality White chocolate.MilkEggsWhite Granulated SugarButterAll-purpose flourBaking powderSalt
Steps to prepare the Cake
Start by melting the chocolate and milk. You want to be careful at the step, so the chocolate incorporates in the milk properly. And let the melted chocolate cool down a little before you add it to the batter. The next few steps are like any other steps to follow to bake a cake. Whisk the butter and sugar until it’s completely combined. Then add the eggs and give a mix. Next, you sift the flour, baking powder and salt and instead of whisking you just fold the flour to make the consistency of the batter smooth. Keep in mind not to over mix the flour to the batter. Often overmixing will result in a hard texture of the cake.
KEY NOTE: To get a flat top of the cake, wrap the cake pan with a baking strip or alluminium foil. Here is the baking strip I use. You have to wet the strip before you wrap it around.
I have used this batter to prepare a cupcake as well as cake so depending on what you want to prepare you divide the batter into individual cake pans or muffin tins.
Mascarpone Cheese Frosting
I absolutely love mascarpone cheese frosting because it doesn’t make the cake overly sweet and the frosting is so easy to prepare. All I do is wisk room temperature of mascarpone cheese with heavy whipping cream with some sugar and vanilla extract. This white chocolate cake is super simple and super easy to prepare. It is not overly sweet as some might expect because only white chocolate is used in the cake batter. It was a delicious cake and with the mascarpone cheese frosting it over all came together beautifully. My husband loved the white chocolate cake and saw that my kid who can get a little picky when it comes to cake.
Can you make this Cake Eggless?
I haven’t tried making this cake without egg, but I am definitely going to bake it once again very soon. And at that time, I will try to not add eggs and use yogurt instead which is typically what I use when I bake an eggless cake. If that works out great that I am definitely going to update this post.
